it does not provide the most convenient interface for that functional‐
ity. More sophisticated interfaces are expected to be built on top of
either the command-line interface, or more likely, on top of the not‐
- much library interface. See <u>http://notmuchmail.org</u> for more about
+ much library interface. See <u>https://notmuchmail.org</u> for more about
alternate interfaces to notmuch. The emacs-based interface to notmuch
(available under <b>emacs/</b> in the Notmuch source distribution) is probably
the most widely used at this time.
<pre>
Supported global options for <b>notmuch</b> include
- <b>--help</b> Print a synopsis of available commands and exit.
+ <b>--help</b> <b>[command-name]</b>
+ Print a synopsis of available commands and exit. With an
+ optional command name, show the man page for that subcommand.
- <b>--version</b>
- Print the installed version of notmuch, and exit.
+ <b>--version</b>
+ Print the installed version of notmuch, and exit.
- <b>--config=FILE</b>
- Specify the configuration file to use. This overrides any
- configuration file specified by ${NOTMUCH_CONFIG}.
+ <b>--config=FILE</b>
+ Specify the configuration file to use. This overrides any con‐
+ figuration file specified by ${NOTMUCH_CONFIG}.
+
+ <b>--uuid=HEX</b>
+ Enforce that the database UUID (a unique identifier which per‐
+ sists until e.g. the database is compacted) is HEX; exit with an
+ error if it is not. This is useful to detect rollover in modifi‐
+ cation counts on messages. You can find this UUID using e.g.
+ <b>notmuch</b> <b>count</b> <b>--lastmod</b>
+
+ All global options except <b>--config</b> can also be specified after the com‐
+ mand. For example, <b>notmuch</b> <b>subcommand</b> <b>--uuid=HEX</b> is equivalent to <b>not-</b>
+ <b>much</b> <b>--uuid=HEX</b> <b>subcommand</b>.
</pre>
<h2>COMMANDS</h2>
<h3> SETUP</h3>
<pre>
- The <b>notmuch</b> <b>setup</b> command is used to configure Notmuch for first use,
+ The <b>notmuch</b> <b>setup</b> command is used to configure Notmuch for first use,
(or to reconfigure it later).
- The setup command will prompt for your full name, your primary email
- address, any alternate email addresses you use, and the directory con‐
+ The setup command will prompt for your full name, your primary email
+ address, any alternate email addresses you use, and the directory con‐
taining your email archives. Your answers will be written to a configu‐
- ration file in ${NOTMUCH_CONFIG} (if set) or ${HOME}/.notmuch-config .
+ ration file in ${NOTMUCH_CONFIG} (if set) or ${HOME}/.notmuch-config .
This configuration file will be created with descriptive comments, mak‐
- ing it easy to edit by hand later to change the configuration. Or you
+ ing it easy to edit by hand later to change the configuration. Or you
can run <b>notmuch</b> <b>setup</b> again to change the configuration.
- The mail directory you specify can contain any number of sub-directo‐
+ The mail directory you specify can contain any number of sub-directo‐
ries and should primarily contain only files with individual email mes‐
- sages (eg. maildir or mh archives are perfect). If there are other,
- non-email files (such as indexes maintained by other email programs)
+ sages (eg. maildir or mh archives are perfect). If there are other,
+ non-email files (such as indexes maintained by other email programs)
then notmuch will do its best to detect those and ignore them.
- Mail storage that uses mbox format, (where one mbox file contains many
- messages), will not work with notmuch. If that's how your mail is cur‐
+ Mail storage that uses mbox format, (where one mbox file contains many
+ messages), will not work with notmuch. If that's how your mail is cur‐
rently stored, it is recommended you first convert it to maildir format
with a utility such as mb2md before running <b>notmuch</b> <b>setup</b> <b>.</b>
- Invoking <b>notmuch</b> with no command argument will run <b>setup</b> if the setup
+ Invoking <b>notmuch</b> with no command argument will run <b>setup</b> if the setup
command has not previously been completed.
</pre>
<h3> OTHER COMMANDS</h3>
<pre>
- Several of the notmuch commands accept search terms with a common syn‐
+ Several of the notmuch commands accept search terms with a common syn‐
tax. See <b>notmuch-search-terms</b>(7) for more details on the supported syn‐
tax.
- The <b>search</b>, <b>show</b>, <b>address</b> and <b>count</b> commands are used to query the
+ The <b>search</b>, <b>show</b>, <b>address</b> and <b>count</b> commands are used to query the
email database.
- The <b>reply</b> command is useful for preparing a template for an email
+ The <b>reply</b> command is useful for preparing a template for an email
reply.
The <b>tag</b> command is the only command available for manipulating database
contents.
- The <b>dump</b> and <b>restore</b> commands can be used to create a textual dump of
+ The <b>dump</b> and <b>restore</b> commands can be used to create a textual dump of
email tags for backup purposes, and to restore from that dump.
- The <b>config</b> command can be used to get or set settings in the notmuch
+ The <b>config</b> command can be used to get or set settings in the notmuch
configuration file.
</pre>
+<h3> CUSTOM COMMANDS</h3>
+<pre>
+ If the given command is not known to notmuch, notmuch tries to execute
+ the external <b>notmuch-<subcommand></b> in ${PATH} instead. This allows users
+ to have their own notmuch related tools to be run via the notmuch com‐
+ mand. By design, this does not allow notmuch's own commands to be over‐
+ ridden using external commands.
+</pre>
+
+<h3> OPTION SYNTAX</h3>
+<pre>
+ All options accepting an argument can be used with '=' or ':' as a sep‐
+ arator. For the cases where it's not ambiguous (in particular excluding
+ boolean options), a space can also be used. The following are all
+ equivalent:
+
+ notmuch --config=alt-config config get user.name
+ notmuch --config:alt-config config get user.name
+ notmuch --config alt-config config get user.name
+</pre>
+
<h2>ENVIRONMENT</h2>
<pre>
The following environment variables can be used to control the behavior
<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<pre>
- <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>notmuch-count</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>notmuch-dump</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>notmuch-hooks</a>(5),
- <a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>notmuch-insert</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-new-1/'>notmuch-new</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>notmuch-reply</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>not‐</a>
- <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>much-restore</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-search</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>not‐</a>
- <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>much-show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>notmuch-tag</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-address-1/'>notmuch-address</a>(1)
+ <a href='../notmuch-address-1/'>notmuch-address</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-compact-1/'>notmuch-compact</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>much-count</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>notmuch-dump</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>notmuch-hooks</a>(5), <a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>notmuch-insert</a>(1),
+ <a href='../notmuch-new-1/'>notmuch-new</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-properties-7/'>notmuch-properties</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-reindex-1/'>notmuch-reindex</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>much-reply</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>notmuch-restore</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-search</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>much-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>notmuch-tag</a>(1)
- The notmuch website: <b>http://notmuchmail.org</b>
+ The notmuch website: <b>https://notmuchmail.org</b>
</pre>
<h2>CONTACT</h2>
<pre>
- Feel free to send questions, comments, or kudos to the notmuch mailing
- list <<u>notmuch@notmuchmail.org</u>> . Subscription is not required before
+ Feel free to send questions, comments, or kudos to the notmuch mailing
+ list <<u>notmuch@notmuchmail.org</u>> . Subscription is not required before
posting, but is available from the notmuchmail.org website.
- Real-time interaction with the Notmuch community is available via IRC
+ Real-time interaction with the Notmuch community is available via IRC
(server: irc.freenode.net, channel: #notmuch).
</pre>
<h2>COPYRIGHT</h2>
<pre>
- 2015, Carl Worth and many others
+ 2009-2019, Carl Worth and many others
</pre>
-<h2>0.20.2</h2>
+<h2>0.29</h2>
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